Something about Nothing

Today played football in the wing. The ground was about 4 feet across. vidit and unni started the game and soon amal and I joined in. It was fun, playing football with tennis-ball in such a narrow place with one player weighing 105 kgs

Celebrated kaka’s b’day. Instead of him getting bumps, all the people who had come with hopes to kick kaka were kicked mercilessly. No-one was spared. People who ran into rooms were dragged back into the kicking-arena and were given bumps.

For the placement-study, we have taken inspiration from Five Point Someone. We are doing C2D - Cooperate to Dominate. The work load has been shared. abhinav is doing DS and algos, piyush is doing os, vidit is doing networks, paresh - CO, adi - SE and I am doing DB. And yes, paresh and vidit have not left MSBR. They are great guys just helping us out.

It is 1:30 a.m and I believe in –
“Your future depends on your dreams” So go to sleep.

Placements start in 4-5 days.. So bye, I’ve to sleep for my future.

Placements rule the day. Each and everyone has just one thought, one aim - a nice job with a fat salary. raheja, majjj and me solved an ibm paper, with special aid from the msbr guys - vidit, ranta and shetty. The msbr people are without a care in the world, all the time enjoying themselves while we try to study. Even the mails have dried up. These days all the mails we get are from IRONhide with the subject “Reg Placements”. I sincerely hope the placement-season gets over as soon as possible, with everyone getting a nice job.

Had a look at the list of FYPs. After vidit stranded me on the verge of finalising the FYP :((, maybe I’ll do it with majjj. Saw the FYPs. Two seem interesting. But FYP is not a major concern right now. The major concern is - ya you guessed it right - placement.

Played TT after a long time today. It seemed that we were having a batch party there. raheja, majjj and me started, soon vidit and prashant joined us and then amal, deadly, pb, jagan and chandu gate-crashed the party and then there was chaos all-around.

Through GTV, joined a quake game on the net and spectated z4muz. It was a good experience, watching the game live instead of a demo and able to comment live !!
parry is back from raipur. So will get some stuff to eat for at least 2-3 days unless abhinav and me are in ravenous form. :))

Filled form for TAship today. Applied for DWDM, Maths-3 and ITWS-1. Lets see if and what do I get. Still undecided about MS. Hopefully will reach a decision soon.

July 10th. 11:12 p.m.

I am really astounded by ‘The Da Vinci Code’ by Dan Brown. I completed it today afternoon. Searched for ‘Priory of Sion’, Da Vinci paintings on the net, and most of the things told in the novel appear to be true I am fascinated with DaVinci and his paintings now. Really amazing book.

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Yesterday night celebrated deadly and bapu’s b’day. A really tasty cake preceeded by some nasty bumps and succeeded by 3 engrossing cricket matches completetd the celebrations. A really tight last over(to ketan) and a hattrick(rajjo, nipun and vidit) made my day (or should I say night?) We started playing at 1:00 a.m and ended around 4:00 in the morning.

Today everyone is really tense with the placements here. First adi and piyush, then abhinav and finally khare, majjj, ashish, raheja, amal(I don’t know why is he bothering) and chandu. Missed today’s CL class. Was sleeping.

Anyways I did a nice thing today. Short-listed my prospective companies. Hopefully would get a nice company, but I’m still unsure of what to do ? Job or MBA or MS ? Lets see where do I land up finally…

July 8th. 11:26 p.m.

Today studied C. khare was doing some programs and majjj, dixit and me sat with him, helping him and simultaneously brushing up a few basics. Got entangled in left and right associativity and wrote many sample codes to try out all the permutations and combinations. Also I again tried to study pointers from diglib, did better then last time, but still have lots of ground to cover.

Today I woke up early. 8:15 a.m. !!! That is surely an achievement. Will try to make that a habit.

In the morning I tried helping vidit set-up his room but it was like caging a tiger, if not worse. Searched for beautiful girls and soccer photos in newspapers to paste in his room. Helped him by contibuting photos of amrita rao and keira knightley, but he managed to lose them in a jiffy in the usual vidit-fashion.

Have started reading ‘Da-Vinci Code’. Seems really intriguing.

July 6th. 11:32 p.m.